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Made By Us and WABE 90.1FM take home the Silver Award in the Civil and Human Rights caetgory.
Navigating this Independence Day can feel hard. How can we spend the holiday doing something meaningful, intentional, and rejuvenating?
Civic Season helps us reckon with the reality of our democracy: that we have yet more promises unfilled, but we also have the power to inform and shape our country.
To celebrate, we offer 20 everyday steps anyone can take this Civic Season – or any season – to build a more modern, robust democracy.
A group of directors representing some of the nation’s largest and most influential history museums gathered to talk about how we might best work together.
Posters used to be a primary means of communication. It was an inexpensive way to communicate to everyday people.
What I find most impressive about Civic Season, along with the broader efforts of Made By Us, is that is offers such a fantastic example of meeting people where they are.
It was one thing for me to read about the military conclusion to the Civil War, but it was another thing entirely to stand in front of the table and chairs used by both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
“The idea is, we’ve never been perfect, it’s always been hard, and people have always had to work at it,” says Sheffield Hale, the center’s president and CEO.
Through Utah's Civic Season we are better able to understand the past and use it to shape the future.
The City of Madison Common Council passed an honoring resolution on Tuesday.
A themed series of civics-related programs and events in June and July to engage younger generations in the role of American democracy.
It’s 2006, I’m six and we’re watching ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ on the portable TV in the car.
The bottom line is that today’s issues are only solvable by a broad coalition of interested and engaged people.
An inspired addition to your table — and your citizenship— from Monticello
Historical thinking is anything but a binary exercise. The truth is that we are defined by everything honored during Juneteenth and celebrated on July 4th
History is made by everyday people who spend five minutes helping a neighbor unload groceries, 30 minutes researching their ballot, or an hour attending a school board meeting.
At the museum, we have developed an active and dynamic visitor experience—creating a space alive with conversation that creates community.
Nia Mosby, Adam Rozan, Bronte de Cardenas and Trizha Loren Aquino share about the 2022 Civic Season.
Civic Season is a new summer tradition between Juneteenth and July 4th to explore what we stand for.
Think of it as Coachella meets democracy plus…you guessed it…some delicious pizza provided by Pizza to the Polls.
We’re capturing photos, stories and comments from the #CivicSeason experience. If you’re here, you’re a part of it!
This is our moment in history - which makes us the primary source. We’ve partnered with StoryCorps to capture stories of those who join and build Civic Season through the nation’s 250th – in a collection that lives at the Library of Congress.
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